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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use read more
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.